Alfred Kazin
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Robert Hass
American poet
Robert L. Hassis an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997.
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About the Robert Hass
Robert L. Hassis an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He won the 2007 National Book Award and shared the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for the collection Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005. In 2014 he was awarded the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets.
5 Quotes by Robert Hass
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I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.
Robert HassAmerican poet
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All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking.
Robert HassAmerican poet
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In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain – Well, I have dreamed this coast myself.
Robert HassAmerican poet
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Take the time to write. You can do your life’s work in half an hour a day.
Robert HassAmerican poet
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There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.
Robert HassAmerican poet